A major housing manufacturer has decided to open a store in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, where you can experience a virtual housing tour in a virtual space on the Internet called "Metaverse".
At the store opened by the major housing manufacturer Daiwa House Industry in the large commercial facility "Iias Tsukuba" in Tsukuba, you can experience the "Metaverse Housing Exhibition Center" that the company is developing on the Internet.
The user can operate the terminal in the store and observe the avatar as if walking in the house or talk with each other through the avatar of the alter ego.
You can also change the color of the wallpaper, floor, and kitchen equipment in the virtual space to check the atmosphere of the room that suits your taste.
According to the manufacturer, the number of visitors to the housing exhibition hall is decreasing due to the influence of the new corona, but since services using Metaverse are rare, we would like to promote the use by installing it in commercial stores.
Hirotsugu Otomo, Managing Director of Daiwa House Industry, said, "I want you to experience the goodness of Metaverse by remotely entering the virtual space with your family, talking while looking at the same thing, and looking at the house from various angles. I would like you to use it as a hybrid store of real and online for the lifestyle that changes with. "